Word: newarkers
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...that time, Alito had found a new job. When the U.S. Attorney's post in Newark, N.J., opened up in '87, Alito wasn't an obvious candidate. U.S. Attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in each state, are often swashbuckling, charismatic figures who are aiming to head into politics. In his Justice Department job, Alito worked on highly technical legal questions, seldom held press conferences and rarely showed up in a courtroom. Alito saw the job as a chance to move back near where he grew up and be closer to his family, and he had a novel spin...
After Alito's three years as U.S. Attorney, President George H.W. Bush tapped him to be an appeals court judge in Newark, a position he has held for 15 years. When Alito was first nominated, it was expected that Democrats would attack him for his opinions as a judge, particularly a 1991 dissenting opinion in which he defended a Pennsylvania law that said a woman must notify her husband before she has an abortion. Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department...
...Sean Penn, George Clooney. Many celebrities have found that working on international causes (say, civil liberties or poverty overseas) is a way to indulge a more palatable, little-l liberalism at a safe remove from controversial issues at home (say, civil liberties under the Patriot Act or poverty in Newark...
...prison. He wrote a series of children’s books designed to steer young people away from street gangs and towards a life of nonviolence. He produced public-service announcements urging kids to stay out of gangs, and he participated in anti-violence mentoring programs via telephone. Newark city officials also credited Williams for helping to broker a peace between the rival gangs the Crips and the Bloods, which helped lead to a drop in Newark’s murder rate. The killings Williams committed and the crimes his founding of the Crips caused are tragic and horrific...
...PLOT AGAINST AMERICA PHILIP ROTH When Charles Lindbergh was elected President in 1940, it spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...